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When was the last time you took Alka Seltzer? I'm not talking about the cold and flu medicine, but the good old tried and true Alka Seltzer that's been around since 1931.Yesterday I ate some nachos. With jalapenos. Lots of jalapenos. Used to be - this was not a problem with me. But today I've had a sour stomach and indigestation. Plop plop, fizz fizz. Oh what a relief it is.Taking two Alka Seltzer immediately solved my problem. Sometimes (oftentimes) the old remedies work best.Enjoy these old commercials you grew up with. The best commerical ever.

New Yorkers take a kind of perverse pride in never looking up. Not in a figurative sense, of course: we are, after all, as optimistic as anyone else. (Who else but die-hard optimists would willingly live in so unforgiving a city?) But when it comes to actually, physically looking up, most of our gazes rarely rise above the ankles of our fellow commuters. The Boston-born, New York-based artist Duke Riley is going to change that.

Expedition Six NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit performs a series of microgravity experiments with water spheres and effervescent antacid tablets. In the second of four videos, Pettit inserts a tablet into a 50-millimeter sphere and observes the fizzy results.

No evidence that accused cannibal had more than one victimPolice continue to dig up gardens at man's estate, say he had sought to meet other men through personal ads By Michael Gavin Police say extensive investigations have revealed no indication that a Hesse man alleged to have engaged in cannibalism had any collaborators, or more than one victim. Investigators, who were removing walls in the man's home on Thursday, dismissed reports suggesting otherwise as “speculation“ by some sensation-seeking news media. Police have dug up much of the home's large garden since frozen body parts from a 42-year-old man, who is...